Singapore retail sales (excluding motor vehicles) grew by 2.5 per cent to SG$3.4 billion (US$2.5 billion) in June, following May’s 1.7 per cent increase. The country’s seasonally adjusted retail sales were up 0.2 per cent month over month, data from the…
President Vo Van Thuong has asked the Vietnamese community in Laos to set its sights on long-term sustainable business growth even though weathering current short-term difficulties will be complicated. During Tuesday’s meeting with the Vietnamese community in…
Targeting consumers is not much affected by the difficult economic situation, Japanese retailers are opening more stores in Vietnam. Uniqlo, which has 15 stores in Vietnam after entering three years ago, last month announced plans to expand to the southern…
Manhattan Associates Inc., in partnership with Google Cloud and Zebra Technologies, has released the findings of the industry’s first real-world analysis of Unified Commerce in specialty retail. The Unified Commerce Benchmark for Specialty Retail, conducted…
German-founded British footwear and apparel brand, Dr Martens, has closed all of its physical stores in the Philippines. The brand announced on social media that it closed all of its remaining four stores in Glorietta 4, SM Mall of Asia, SM Megamall, and…
Vietnamese exports to China will no longer be subject to Covid testing from January 8th, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced. The ministry urged localities and businesses to update goods clearance processes at border gates in order to streamline…
The Cat Linh – Ha Dong Metro Line in Hanoi has received an additional VND911 billion ($38.6 million) capital increase. The money will come from state coffers, with 24.4% of it from domestic funds and the rest foreign funds, according to a decision signed by…
Carousell, a Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating across Southeast Asia, is letting go of about 110 employees, or 10% of its total headcount, to reduce costs amid a challenging market condition for the tech industry. The…
The trade surplus was US$0.78 billion in November, which took the year’s figure to $10.6 billion, the General Statistics Office said Tuesday. The surplus in the same period last year was $0.6 billion. But exports fell in November by 8.4% to $29.18 billion,…
Plum, a used luxury fashion e-commerce platform, announced on November 1 that it had completed a C round of financing worth $100 million. In this round, Zhuanzhuan, a Tencent-backed leading used goods trading marketplace in China, made the strategic…
Ikano Retail has recorded its highest turnover yet for the financial year to August 31, reaching US$1 billion across the five markets in which it operates Ikea stores – Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Mexico, equivalent to 41.2 per cent…
Takings at the till in Singapore grew faster in May, helped by a low year-ago base and the continued boost from tourist spending after travel restrictions were eased. Retail sales surged 17.8 percent year on year, extending the 12.1 percent growth in April,…
Singapore retail sales continued their rebound in July, rising 18.1 per cent year on year, excluding motor vehicles. That followed a 19.9 per cent increase in June, both months reflecting the low base of a year earlier when Covid restrictions on border…
Retail sales in South Korea rose 9.7 percent on-year in July amid eased COVID-19 curbs and the growth in people’s outdoor activities, the industry ministry said Tuesday. The combined sales of 25 major offline and online retailers came to 14.17 trillion won…
Japanese fast fashion eyewear brand, OWNDAYS, is pleased to announce the opening of a new store at Takashimaya S.C., Ngee Ann City. This will be the brand’s second premium concept store in the world and its 33rd store in Singapore. The new store will open to…
Mr. Yol Phokasub, Chief Executive Officer of Central Retail Corporation PCL (CRC), announced “Central Retail has achieved success hitting record-high in Q4/2021 performance, with a revenue of THB 58,765 million +15%. EBITDA THB 8,031 million +42% and a net…